Adding apps

Advanced topic

This is an advanced topic - you should only follow these instructions if you are sure you want to add a new app to your TurboStarter project within your monorepo and want to keep pulling updates from the TurboStarter repository.

In some ways - creating a new repository may be the easiest way to manage your application. However, if you want to keep your application within the monorepo and pull updates from the TurboStarter repository, you can follow these instructions.

To pull updates into a separate application outside of mobile - we can use git subtree.

Basically, we will create a subtree at apps/mobile and create a new remote branch for the subtree. When we create a new application, we will pull the subtree into the new application. This allows us to keep it in sync with the apps/mobile folder.

To add a new app to your TurboStarter project, you need to follow these steps:

Create a subtree

First, we need to create a subtree for the apps/mobile folder. We will create a branch named mobile-branch and create a subtree for the apps/mobile folder.

git subtree split --prefix=apps/mobile --branch mobile-branch

Create a new app

Now, we can create a new application in the apps folder.

Let's say we want to create a new app ai-chat at apps/ai-chat with the same structure as the apps/mobile folder (which acts as the template for all new apps).

git subtree add --prefix=apps/ai-chat origin mobile-branch --squash

You should now be able to see the apps/ai-chat folder with the contents of the apps/mobile folder.

Update the app

When you want to update the new application, follow these steps:

Pull the latest updates from the TurboStarter repository

The command below will update all the changes from the TurboStarter repository:

git pull upstream main

Push the `mobile-branch` updates

After you have pulled the updates from the TurboStarter repository, you can split the branch again and push the updates to the mobile-branch:

git subtree split --prefix=apps/mobile --branch mobile-branch

Now, you can push the updates to the mobile-branch:

git push origin mobile-branch

Pull the updates to the new application

Now, you can pull the updates to the new application:

git subtree pull --prefix=apps/ai-chat origin mobile-branch --squash

That's it! You now have a new application in the monorepo 🎉